09-15-2005, 02:07 PM
Nonono. Free trade means trade without regulations. Your resolution proposes restrictions on what companies are allowed to produce, that is not free trade. It doesn't matter what you think "free trade" is, but what Free Trade actually is in general terms. Something like a regional system doesn't restrict trade; it merely restricts where you can use a bought product. But those products can still be available everywhere the company wants.
Don't worry about not being able to watch the best movies from Groot Gouda: with a regional system, you will be able to buy those movies in your own region, should such a system come into existence. Of course, in our Real Life situation, many commercial movies are offered region-free, or players are offered region-free. You seem to think that the possibility of a regional system means that everything will be using such a system, which is wrong of course.
Now, I'm inclined to the left pretty much, especially on social issues, but I still think that a government shouldn't interfere with businesses too much, except where basic goods such as food, and health and safety are concerned. It is not a government's job to increase the pay of entertainment companies CEOs. Try to understand this: a company has but one goal: make as much profit as possible. Everything they do is aimed at that. In your attempt to "help" them (as if they need any help, hah!), you are actually restricting them in reaching their goal.
If you really want to make a resolution on this as free trade, you should legislate that governments shouldn't interfere with entertainment companies. That is free trade, and good for the economy as well.
Don't worry about not being able to watch the best movies from Groot Gouda: with a regional system, you will be able to buy those movies in your own region, should such a system come into existence. Of course, in our Real Life situation, many commercial movies are offered region-free, or players are offered region-free. You seem to think that the possibility of a regional system means that everything will be using such a system, which is wrong of course.
Now, I'm inclined to the left pretty much, especially on social issues, but I still think that a government shouldn't interfere with businesses too much, except where basic goods such as food, and health and safety are concerned. It is not a government's job to increase the pay of entertainment companies CEOs. Try to understand this: a company has but one goal: make as much profit as possible. Everything they do is aimed at that. In your attempt to "help" them (as if they need any help, hah!), you are actually restricting them in reaching their goal.
If you really want to make a resolution on this as free trade, you should legislate that governments shouldn't interfere with entertainment companies. That is free trade, and good for the economy as well.